Introduction

I’ve had a fascination withVirtualizationandContainertechnologies for some time and had settled on using Libvirt and Virtualbox with which to experiment with distributions, technologies and configurations.

Whilst converting my network configuration from Connman to Networkd I stumbled on another container technology which got me interested, namely Systemd-Nspawn. This merely documents my workflow in getting bothArchlinuxandDebiancontainers running and just reflects what is already in the wiki.

Including a network configuration file

My initial reaction to establishing network connectivity was to just follow the Wiki (specifically), with a repeat exercise to what was achieved on the host. The following was undertaken on the container side.